amphitheatre

Other forms of amphitheatre

plural

amphitheatres·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amphitheatre

What does amphitheatre mean?

amphitheatre means "a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amphitheatre?

amphitheatre has 5 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈæmfəθiˈeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for amphitheatre?

Close synonyms include amphitheater, amphitheater, coliseum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amphitheatre a common word?

amphitheatre is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with amphitheatre?

20 words rhyme with amphitheatre. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.